Estimates of current tobacco use prevalence in the EECA

(2025)

Currently, tobacco use remains high across the region, though patterns of use differ markedly from country to country. As of 2022, approximately one third of adults in Georgia, Moldova, and Belarus were current tobacco users. In stark contrast, Turkmenistan reported a significantly lower prevalence of 5.6%. This lowers the regional average to 23.3%, equating to around 22.6 million tobacco users across EECA. At 8 million people, Ukraine had the highest number of tobacco users in 2022, followed by Uzbekistan with 4.2 million, and Kazakhstan with 3 million. At the other end of the spectrum, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Armenia, and Georgia each had fewer than one million tobacco users. This is largely attributable to their smaller population sizes.